Oluwakemi M Balogun
Biographic Data
| ID | 91048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oluwakemi M Balogun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oluwakemi M |
| FAMILY NAME | Balogun |
| SIGNATURE | BALOGUN O M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9138-7110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation
The Nigerian beauty pageant industry positions itself as working to symbolically restore the public face of the nation while seeking to materially shift the private lives of affiliates on the ground
Miss Culture and Miss Cosmopolitan
Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent
Beauty and the Bikini: Embodied Respectability in Nigerian Beauty Pageants
In the world of Nigerian beauty pageants, the bikini remains a fraught embodied symbol and aesthetic practice. Pageant affiliates, critics, and fans alike strongly debate the question of whether to include bikinis in these events. This article draws primarily from nearly a year of ethnographic observations of two Nigerian national beauty contests in 2009-2010 to show how various stakeholders used personal, domestic, and international frames about…
Political Economy of Embodiment: Capitalizing on Globally Staged Bodies in Nigerian Beauty Pageants and Vietnamese Sex Work
How do various stakeholders capitalize off of display workers' bodies? This article uses a comparative-case approach to examine two different sites-beauty pageants in Nigeria and high-end sex workers in Vietnam-where women's bodies are differentially staged with varying degrees of visibility. Theoretically, this article develops the concept of political economy of embodiment to account for a network of people onstage, backstage, and offstage who …
African and American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America
Cultural and Cosmopolitan: Idealized Femininity and Embodied Nationalism in Nigerian Beauty Pageants
This article uses a comparative-case research design of two different national beauty pageants in Nigeria to ask how and why gendered nationalisms are constructed for different audiences and aims. Both contests claim to represent 'true Nigerian womanhood' yet craft separate models of idealized femininity and present different nationalist agendas. I argue that these differences stem from two distinct representations of gendered national identities…
The Homeland Is the Arena: Religion, Transnationalism, and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America
Ousmane Oumar Kane, THE HOMELAND IS THE ARENA: RELIGION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND THE INTEGRATION OF SENEGALESE IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, xv + 313 pp., $35.00 (pape
No necessary tradeoff: Context, life course, and social networks in the identity formation of second-generation Nigerians in the USA
Based on 25 semi-structured interviews, this article examines the racial, ethnic and national identities of second-generation Nigerian immigrants from the San Francisco Bay Area. I elaborate on the segmented-assimilation literature that considers economic circumstances to be a key determinant in identity formation. I show that participants form highly fluid identities throughout the life cycle, pinpointing factors that often get overlooked or de-…
A Broken Silence: Voices of African American Women in the Academy
No necessary tradeoff: Context, life course, and social networks in the identity formation of second-generation Nigerians in the USA
Based on 25 semi-structured interviews, this article examines the racial, ethnic and national identities of second-generation Nigerian immigrants from the San Francisco Bay Area. I elaborate on the segmented-assimilation literature that considers economic circumstances to be a key determinant in identity formation. I show that participants form highly fluid identities throughout the life cycle, pinpointing factors that often get overlooked or de-…
Cultural and Cosmopolitan: Idealized Femininity and Embodied Nationalism in Nigerian Beauty Pageants
This article uses a comparative-case research design of two different national beauty pageants in Nigeria to ask how and why gendered nationalisms are constructed for different audiences and aims. Both contests claim to represent 'true Nigerian womanhood' yet craft separate models of idealized femininity and present different nationalist agendas. I argue that these differences stem from two distinct representations of gendered national identities…
Political Economy of Embodiment: Capitalizing on Globally Staged Bodies in Nigerian Beauty Pageants and Vietnamese Sex Work
How do various stakeholders capitalize off of display workers' bodies? This article uses a comparative-case approach to examine two different sites-beauty pageants in Nigeria and high-end sex workers in Vietnam-where women's bodies are differentially staged with varying degrees of visibility. Theoretically, this article develops the concept of political economy of embodiment to account for a network of people onstage, backstage, and offstage who …
A Broken Silence: Voices of African American Women in the Academy
No necessary tradeoff: Context, life course, and social networks in the identity formation of second-generation Nigerians in the USA
Based on 25 semi-structured interviews, this article examines the racial, ethnic and national identities of second-generation Nigerian immigrants from the San Francisco Bay Area. I elaborate on the segmented-assimilation literature that considers economic circumstances to be a key determinant in identity formation. I show that participants form highly fluid identities throughout the life cycle, pinpointing factors that often get overlooked or de-…
Cultural and Cosmopolitan: Idealized Femininity and Embodied Nationalism in Nigerian Beauty Pageants
This article uses a comparative-case research design of two different national beauty pageants in Nigeria to ask how and why gendered nationalisms are constructed for different audiences and aims. Both contests claim to represent 'true Nigerian womanhood' yet craft separate models of idealized femininity and present different nationalist agendas. I argue that these differences stem from two distinct representations of gendered national identities…
The Homeland Is the Arena: Religion, Transnationalism, and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America
Ousmane Oumar Kane, THE HOMELAND IS THE ARENA: RELIGION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND THE INTEGRATION OF SENEGALESE IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, xv + 313 pp., $35.00 (pape
African and American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America
Political Economy of Embodiment: Capitalizing on Globally Staged Bodies in Nigerian Beauty Pageants and Vietnamese Sex Work
How do various stakeholders capitalize off of display workers' bodies? This article uses a comparative-case approach to examine two different sites-beauty pageants in Nigeria and high-end sex workers in Vietnam-where women's bodies are differentially staged with varying degrees of visibility. Theoretically, this article develops the concept of political economy of embodiment to account for a network of people onstage, backstage, and offstage who …
Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent
Beauty and the Bikini: Embodied Respectability in Nigerian Beauty Pageants
In the world of Nigerian beauty pageants, the bikini remains a fraught embodied symbol and aesthetic practice. Pageant affiliates, critics, and fans alike strongly debate the question of whether to include bikinis in these events. This article draws primarily from nearly a year of ethnographic observations of two Nigerian national beauty contests in 2009-2010 to show how various stakeholders used personal, domestic, and international frames about…
Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation
The Nigerian beauty pageant industry positions itself as working to symbolically restore the public face of the nation while seeking to materially shift the private lives of affiliates on the ground
Miss Culture and Miss Cosmopolitan
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Beauty (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)